Geography
These are the five main ideas used to study geography
What are location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region?
Europeans explored the Americas for wealth, trade, and this
What is spreading religion?
This phrase means colonists were taxed without having a voice in government
What is “no taxation without representation”?
This is the main purpose of government
What is to keep order, protect rights, and provide services?
These are things you can touch and buy
What are goods?
This type of location uses coordinates like latitude and longitude
What is absolute location?
This explorer sailed in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This event involved dumping tea into Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These are the three branches of government
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
This is work that people do for others
What are services?
This type of map shows mountains, rivers, and landforms
What is a physical map?
This colony was started to make money for investors
What is Jamestown?
This document declared independence from Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This branch makes laws
What is the legislative branch?
This means how much of something is available
What is supply?
This map tool shows directions like north, south, east, and west
What is a compass rose?
These people helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter
Who are Native Americans (including Squanto)?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This document explains how the U.S. government works
What is the Constitution?
This means how much people want something
What is demand?
This explains how people change the environment, like building dams
What is human-environment interaction?
These are the three regions of the 13 Colonies
What are New England, Middle, and Southern?
This leader commanded the Continental Army
Who is George Washington?
These are the first 10 amendments
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is why people exchange goods and services
What is trade (to get what they need or want)?